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woundgallery:
Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2003, installed at Mass MoCA, personal photo
“Fabricated in cast aluminum, the two figures in Couple (2003) are meant to hold on to each other for eternity. Bourgeois suffered from a lifelong fear of separation and abandonment, a dread rooted in the events of her early childhood. Made out of various materials and at different scales, and sometimes hanging precariously together from a single wire, Bourgeois’s many couple sculptures express an anxiety defined by the potential loss of the love object. The suspended sculptures also have the capacity to spin in opposite directions, existing in a perpetual state of fragility and ambivalence. Spirals, which abound in Bourgeois’s work and are echoed in the movement of the rotating figures, have duality inherent to their form:
‘The spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? Beginning at the outside is the fear of losing control; the winding in is a tightening, a retreating, a compacting to the point of disappearance. Beginning at the center is affirmation, the move outward is a representation of giving, and giving up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself.’”
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weltenwellen:
Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses
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foxspur-deactivated20150809:
a preserved human heart in a leaden case, discovered in the medieval crypt of a church in Cork, Ireland and collected by General Pitt Rivers in the 1860s
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macrodosing on microdosing by taking an insane amount of breaks while doing any sort of task even an enjoyable one
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“Aware of you, chaotically.”— Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller
as collected in A Literate Passion
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